Some call this hording

[ltlvt]

I call it making money. A penny saved is a penny earned. Thats what my generation was taught this old A/C unit was still working when the installer took it off of my house 25 years ago. I just wanted to up grade to a newer unit while i had the money back then. The sheetmetal will make excellent material for the enclosure I am going to fabricate for my American Rotary phase converter. I am moving the motor outside my insect room to help with the noise. Between it and the 2 hp motor on my Clausing 5913 lathe it is to much for my ears. I already have a window unit in the wall for cooling and when you get all 3 going it is just too much for me to put up with.

 

[benmychree]

Perhaps so, but most folks call it HOARDING.

 

[verbotenwhisky]

I call it making money. A penny saved is a penny earned. Thats what my generation was taught this old A/C unit was still working when the installer took it off of my house 25 years ago. I just wanted to up grade to a newer unit while i had the money back then. The sheetmetal will make excellent material for the enclosure I am going to fabricate for my American Rotary phase converter. I am moving the motor outside my insect room to help with the noise. Between it and the 2 hp motor on my Clausing 5913 lathe it is to much for my ears. I already have a window unit in the wall for cooling and when you get all 3 going it is just too much for me to put up with.

My grandfather bailed hay for everyone in the country side and raised cattle, farming, and he never threw anything away, he had several piles of metal and wood that he would constantly dig pieces out of and fabricate parts to fix implements and structures with. My grandfather wasted nothing, if he threw it away it was no good, used up. part of that came from growing up in the great depression and part of it was a money shortage.

 

[ltlvt]

Perhaps so, but most folks call it HOARDING.

John you have no salt on your potato chips.

 

[Eddyde]

Hoarder? I prefer "Curator of Industrial Miscellany"

 

[CJ5Dave]

A neighbor came to get some PVC board I had scrounged. He and his wife looked around my shop and said I was a hoarder. But they need my hoarded materials.

 

[ltlvt]

A neighbor came to get some PVC board I had scrounged. He and his wife looked around my shop and said I was a hoarder. But they need my hoarded materials.

I can see that happening. For all those ANTI hording folks (You know who you are) I've never seen a junk dealer that did not have a roll of green bills in their pockets. I was at a automobile salvage yard and a guy wanted some lug nuts. They sold him 10 lug nuts at $4 dollars each. And yes the man who sold them to him had a roll of cash in the pocket of his bib overalls.